Turelie, if you are still in the Eastern states my husband and I are still in Toronto. I am bound to Canada for now as I have to wait for my Canadian citizenship to be validated (all my other papers are now expired so going out of the country is out of the question for a couple of months) I'd love to see the two of you And happy 10th Bday to your second incarnation on TORC

Turns out I had food poisoning ... my husband jested and asked if our plans had been hatched sooner than we wanted but I had such a high fever he was worried... and spent most of the night making sure I was alright. Now he's exhausted and I feel slightly guilty .

Who can say if I've been changed for the better?But because I knew youI have been changed for good.

It's funny how some distanceMakes everything seem smallAnd the fears that once controlled meCan't get to me at allIt's time to see what I can doTo test the limits and break throughNo right, no wrong, no rules for meI'm free

Hey everyone, look what I dusted off? Didn't think it still worked, this addy.
LUREA!

Congrats!
Congrats!
Congrats!
on your ten years here!

(one for each post)

And how lovely to see you posting! Do come back often!

I'm feeling disappointed in myself; wasted too much time faffing about on the computer and not enough writing. I'll do some, though - now. The Archer of Dale is hounding me, crowding my thoughts at work with new story ideas.
*sigh*

Gwen, for now I downloaded a trial version of Corel Painter. I might do the same with Photoshop, if that's a possibility. It's very nice, having such an amount of brushes and other options to choose from. I should learn to put less pressure on the pen though - after only one week I already had to replace the nib.

Ture, so good to see you here! :D:D It was very nice talking to you too. Congrats on getting your evenstar(s)!!

Bardy wrote:I'm feeling disappointed in myself; wasted too much time faffing about on the computer and not enough writing. I'll do some, though - now. The Archer of Dale is hounding me, crowding my thoughts at work with new story ideas.*sigh*

Ah, don't I know that feeling! Having big plans to really make some progress on the writing front, even looking forward to it, and in the end I get distracted by a million things (on my computer). And then I feel so bad about myself afterwards. So I went looking for a couple of tricks to help me and, so far *fingers crossed*, they seem to work. One of them is using my netbook when I want to get some writing done. I have only a minimum of software installed there, compared to my fully equiped computer. Or I use pen and paper, even.
Another problem I have is that I can find myself really commited to write, but that the right words don't come right away, and once again I get distracted. I've discovered that timed writing helps me there to get me started. Starting of with telling myself to keep concentrated and type for only 10 minutes, however bad it is, then I can do something else for a little while before the next session (I also use this trick to get me started with cleaning somethimes, btw ). It sometimes happens that I only need one session or two, to find myself on a roll. Deluding thyself helps, thus. And when I have a hard time choosing between watching telly and plotting, I take the note/netbook with me to the couch - even if I don't get many new ideas written down that way, it's still more than when I wouldn't have bothered to multitask at all.

Eari-- Bleeeecch, food poisoning! Also, more very belated :hug: about your job. I don't see why any of your coworkers thought an email was an inappropriate way to deal with the problem -- that seems perfectly reasonable to me, and a much better way to keep the fuss down. Yeesh. Sorry your coworkers are so confrontational.

Lurea, I don't remember posting with you back in the day, but Hiiiiiiii and Welcome Back!!

Who can say if I've been changed for the better?But because I knew youI have been changed for good.

It's funny how some distanceMakes everything seem smallAnd the fears that once controlled meCan't get to me at allIt's time to see what I can doTo test the limits and break throughNo right, no wrong, no rules for meI'm free

Who can say if I've been changed for the better?But because I knew youI have been changed for good.

It's funny how some distanceMakes everything seem smallAnd the fears that once controlled meCan't get to me at allIt's time to see what I can doTo test the limits and break throughNo right, no wrong, no rules for meI'm free